Despite accusations that not leaving a residual U.S. military presence in Iraq contributed to its present crisis, President Obama on Tuesday both called the 2011 withdrawal “the right thing to…
Pentagon spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said Tuesday Egyptian and Emirati airstrikes against Islamists in Libya were different from U.S. airstrikes against jihadists in Iraq because those…
Hezbollah, which is now condemning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant for killing an American journalist, abducted, tortured and murdered U.S. Marine Colonel William Higgins in 1988. A CNN…
Rep. Mike Rogers (R.-Mich.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said on NBC's “Meet the Press” today that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is “one…
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday called the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) “beyond anything that we’ve seen,” and did not rule out the possibility…
After State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf on Wednesday pointed to a statement by Saudi Arabia’s highest religious leader condemning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL), a…
President Obama’s reference to the need for Middle East governments to work against the “cancer” of jihadist terrorism was not intended to signal suspicion that some were supporting the Islamic…
The U.S. and Syria’s Assad regime are carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) fighters on either side of the Iraq-Syria border, but State Department…
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) expressed concern Sunday about the contention by some that President Vladimir Putin should be given Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine because he wants to protect…
The terrorist threat facing the United States is greater now than it was before 9/11, House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers warned Sunday, because while before 9/11 there were “…
A U.N. anti-racial discrimination committee took the U.S. government to task Thursday for not having ratified various international rights-related treaties, with one member saying that “from…
Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience in Hawaii Wednesday that climate change, in terms of global impact, is “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now,” putting an issue he…
Deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes acknowledged Wednesday that if U.S. troops now in northern Iraq to assess ways to rescue civilians trapped and under threat by jihadist fighters come…
Amid discussions between U.S. and Australian ministers over the threat posed by foreign fighters in the Syria conflict returning to their home countries, a photograph emerged online of a young…
Around 130 more U.S. troops have arrived in northern Iraq, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday, but stressed that the latest deployment “is not a combat-boots-on-the-ground operation…
“There will be no reintroduction of American combat forces into Iraq,” Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. He also said though that the administration will consider future requests from…
Asked about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent critical remarks about the administration’s policy in Syria, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf pointed out that “she’s been a…
President Obama on Thursday night specified three distinct sets of circumstances in which U.S. forces will carry out airstrikes in Iraq in the coming days.
In 2012, President Obama in a speech at the Holocaust Memorial Museum announced the establishment of an Atrocities Prevention Board and said “preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core…
The foreign minister of Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region appealed Wednesday for military help in the fight against ISIS and humanitarian help for those displaced by the jihadists' advance and…
Failing to respond to Hamas attacks against Israel on the grounds that they were launched from civilian areas would be a moral and operational mistake that would validate its use of human…
The number of illegal aliens being apprehended coming across the southwest border who hail from countries with “substantial terrorist ties” is at a record high, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday…
The number of illegal aliens being apprehended coming across the southwest border who hail from countries with “substantial terrorist ties” is at a record high, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday…
Secretary of State John Kerry has engaged heavily with Qatar in efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, but before he joined the Obama administration slammed Qatar’s relationship with Hamas,…
Secretary of State John Kerry has engaged heavily with Qatar in efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, but before he joined the Obama administration slammed Qatar’s relationship with Hamas,…